Re: [R] checkpointing

I have been using DMTCP successfully for a long-running optim() task. This is a single-core process running on a large linux cluster with slurm as the job manager. This cluster places an 8-hour limit on individual jobs, and since my cost function takes 11 minutes to compute, I need many such

[R] checkpointing

Has anyone ever considered what it would take to implement checkpointing in R, so that long-running processes could be interrupted and resumed later, from a different process or even a different machine? Thanks, Andy -- Andy Jacobson andy.jacob...@noaa.gov NOAA Global Monitoring Lab 325